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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Peppergrasses
  8. Thurber's Pepperweed
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What Thurber's Pepperweed supports

38 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 bees 4 food 30 flowers

Caterpillars All

3 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on peppergrasses
  • Great Southern White Ascia monuste on peppergrasses
  • Becker's White Pontia beckerii on peppergrasses

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Black-and-red Miner Andrena prima Pollen specialist on Physaria and Lepidium on peppergrasses

Plant eaters All

4 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Chionomus pacificus
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on peppergrasses
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on peppergrasses
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer on peppergrasses

Flower visitors All

30 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Mesilla Masked Bee Hylaeus mesillae
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more
  • Golden-haired Miner Bee Andrena auricoma
  • Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus
  • Verbesina Longhorn-Cuckoo Triepeolus verbesinae
  • Phacelia Shortface Dufourea mulleri Pollen specialist on Phacelia and Nemophila
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